Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Sweet Home (1989)

Sweet Home (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 27, 2018Gonzo Japanese Haunted House Film
Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa has developed a reputation for his intensely uncanny and deeply unfathomable horror films. This is one of his earlier works, a much more straightforward haunted house film that in its more bizarre moments attains the whacked-out dementia of the cult Japanese film House
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Guard from the Underground (1992)

Guard from the Underground (1992)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 3, 2005Psycho Security Guard
An early Kiyoshi Kurosawa film, this starts out as a peculiar deadpan comedy about an office filled with strange characters before emerging as a slasher film of sorts as a hulking security guard eliminating people
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Cure (1997)

Cure (1997)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 23, 2001Hypnotism Murders
The film that brought Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa to attention. Set around a series of hypnotism murders, this is, as with Kurosawa’s films, cryptic and frequently inexplicable but has an undeniable uncanniness
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Seance (2000)

Seance (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 9, 2001Medium/Kidnap Thriller
Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa conducts a remake of the British thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon. Where the original was a mundane film that depicted a kidnap scheme involving a fake medium, Kurosawa builds this out as an actual ghost story
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Pulse (2001)

Pulse (2001)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 24, 2007Japanese Ghost Story
From Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a ghost story that creates an incredibly haunted atmosphere. As with most of Kurosawa’s work, dazzling ideas sit alongside a murky and impenetrable plot where you are baffled trying to make sense of what is happening
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Retribution (2006)

Retribution (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 29, 2007Japanese Ghost Story
Kiyoshi Kurosawa attempts to give the J-horrors of Ring and The Grudge a run for their money and creates an intensely haunted film. As with much of Kurosawa’s films, this also comes with a deeply unfathomable plot
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Real (2013)

Real (2013)
Rating: ★★
Aug 19, 2014Dreamscape Film
A Japanese-made variant on the dream incursion theme of Inception. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is noted for his bafflingly surrealistic horror films but in working in a genre like science-fiction that requires an implied explainability, he makes a far less interesting film
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